CVE-2012-2243

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by uploading an XML file with the xhtml extension, which is rendered inline as script. NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2012-2244 to execute arbitrary code without authentication, as demonstrated by modifying the clamav path.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2012-2243
  • Assigner
  • security@debian.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2012-11-24T20:55:02
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2013-02-08T04:50:04
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.4.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:mahara:mahara:1.5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://mahara.org/interaction/forum/topic.php?id=4937 Patch Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.launchpad.net/mahara/+bug/1055232
http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2591
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2243
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-2243
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 10:47:33 Added to TrackCVE